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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457726303321

Autore

Wright Will

Titolo

The Wild West [[electronic resource] ] : the mythical cowboy and social theory / / Will Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2001

ISBN

1-4462-4062-2

0-7619-5233-0

1-280-36934-5

9786610369348

1-4129-3388-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Core cultural icons

Disciplina

302.540978

978.02

Soggetti

Individualism

Social contract

Individualism - West (U.S.)

Civil society - West (U.S.)

Electronic books.

West (U.S.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-197) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Individualism; Chapter 1 - The Social Contract; Chapter 2 - 'Natural' Individuals; Chapter 3 - The Invisible Hand; Part 2: Industrial Problems; Chapter 4 - Karl Marx: The Revolutionary and the Cowboy; Chapter 5 - Max Weber: Bureaucracy and the Cowboy; Chapter 6 - Emile Durkheim: Endless 'Frontiers'; Chapter 7 - Separating the Women; Chapter 8 - Removing the Indians; Chapter 9 - Sustaining the Wilderness; Conclusion; References; Index; File and Television Index

Sommario/riassunto

Will Wright explores the continuing popularity of the myth of the Wild West, demonstrating how, as a cultural icon, it speaks deeply to a desire for individualism and liberty. The author discusses the myth through market and social theory.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810192903321

Autore

Brown David <1968 April 25->

Titolo

Empire and enterprise : money, power and the adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars / / David Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9781526132000

1-5261-3201-X

1-5261-5210-X

1-5261-3200-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Collana

Studies in early modern Irish history.

Disciplina

941.506

Soggetti

Land settlement - Ireland - History - 17th century

Land tenure - Ireland - 17th century

Ireland History 1625-1649

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Atlantic oligarchy : Ireland in the early English Atlantic world -- The Three Kingdoms -- The Adventure for Irish land -- Grocers' Hall -- Commonwealth -- Republic -- Restoration.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.